My bluetooth isn't working, any tips?

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

My laptop's bluetooth isn't working for some reason. It has happened before, but back then I somehow fixed it by playing around with the device manager. Now I did the same but nothing seems to have changed. Anyone know how I can fix it? Questions allowed.

 

[Nuke]

did you try sacrificing a small animal to the norse gods? im not kidding either, you always have to do weird things to get bluetooth to function as described on the tin. its is one of those technologies i wish would disappear and make room for something that actually works. 

as for actual troubleshooting, every time my bluetooth gets a driver update via windows update, it breaks something. when i went to download the drivers from the mobo website, they had the 32 bit driver in the 64 bit section, and sure enough thats the driver windows update was pushing. stupid microsoft. try a manual update and take steps that prevent windows update from breaking fuctional drivers. you can also try using the driver rollback feature in the device manager, that never works but you can try it.